Not Washed or Cooked, # 294

Accompanied by a superb example of superfluous illustration, this mangle has now been corrected:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Gang pockets thousands of pounds after doctoring private school bills, police warn’

Hamsptead

Double-take, # 178

John Holloway seems to have been doing an online quiz. It’s hard to tell whether the included mangle is a misspelling or a typographical error:

Link: Quizopolis, ‘The Archers Brian Aldridge Trivia’

Hungry for Hungary

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 88

Via John Holloway, an entry from an online school directory which persistently presents the school’s name incorrectly, although the school’s own included graphic shows the correct form… twice:

Link: UK Schools & Colleges Database, ‘Murrays Road School’

John points out that ‘the name of the road (and therefore of the school) is Murray’s Road, with an apostrophe’. The directory is not the only place where confusion over the apostrophe arises. A report in IOM Today of the school’s proposed amalgamation with the infants’ school that feeds it shows the apostrophe in the text, but not in the photograph’s caption.

Murrays School for Murray’s School (x3)

Not Washed or Cooked, # 245

This, sent in by Des Pond of Slough, is extracted from a membership-benefits advertisement featured in the club magazine of the Civil Service Motoring Association (CSMA). The mangle (whose correct form can be found in UK-English spell-checkers in standard applications such as WordPerfect and Word) occurs among the postcards, although arguably the text beneath requires a hyphen:

Source: CSMA, Club Life, July-August, 2015, p. 70

Madiera

Not Washed or Cooked, # 241

Most well-known place names can be found in the spelling dictionaries of standard word processors when set to the appropriate location, and spell-checkers are also available for databases, so there is no excuse for this mangle which turned up in a set of directions on the AA’s online route-finder. It was spelt correctly (‘Nuneaton’ if you’re unfamiliar with the name) in the rest of the directions:

Link: AA Route Planner (journey from Wibtoft, Lutterworth to CV10 7DJ, Nuneaton)

Nuenaton

Not Washed or Cooked, # 224

Not, despite the headline (see link below), a continuation of yesterday’s food theme, but Independent carelessness renaming a London Borough:

Link: The Independent, ‘Jeremy Paxman gets grilled […]’

Kensigton

Not Washed or Cooked, # 222

Today’s mangle is a variant of yesterday’s, but even more heinous given the source — don’t miss the publication’s tagline — and the fact that the error has stood uncorrected for over four years:

Link: The Norway Post, ‘Norwgian air base in Scotland?’

Norwgian for Norwegian

Not Washed or Cooked, # 221

A world news publication should carefully check its country-based spellings:

Link: World Bulletin (Turkey), Norwagian candidate wants mosque to increase immigration

Norwagian for Norwegian

Not Washed or Cooked, # 220

Here, the writer’s fingers may simply have followed a familiar routine, resulting — in the absence of spell-checking and proofreading — in something quite odd:

Link: Herald Sun (Melbourne), ‘Australian men’s basketball team crush Finalnd […]’

Finalnd for Finland

Not Washed or Cooked, # 57

I hate to criticize people raising money for charity* ―

― but if you type the first placename shown into Google, it not only autocorrects the misspelling, but even assumes you might be interested in the names of both places and shows the right form of each, so there’s no excuse:

Link: Google search ‘Johno’Grotes’

* The information was on one of Waitrose’s ‘Community Matters’ boxes, which accept tokens given to customers who spend a certain amount, and Mangling English’s token went in this one…

Not Washed or Cooked, # 53

The Guardian’s Consumer Champions are mangling again, this time with a placename that is much in the news at present:

Link: Guardian | Consumer Champions, ‘Gilbralta’ (and Aims Review address)